‘Armed Teacher Training Program’ Launches In 15 States

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69. Beats being delusional. Within the past couple years I can remember people dying

just pulling guns out of their cars. No human finger on the trigger. One killed himself in front of the gun store in OKC, the other shot his kid pulling a shotgun out for a romp in the field (I know, shotguns don't have drop safeties). One grabbed a 9mm out of a box...and on a call, years ago, we had to work around a gun that had fired into a wall after being dropped.

While such "safe" weapons are the rule, that's fine in a lab, but your contention would seem that a malfunction wouldn't be possible, that it will all work perfectly and not put millions of kids, teachers, visitors, vendors, and others at potential risk of being murdered accidentally by a teacher packing heat. And you know it won't, so don't waste my time.

It might only be 1 in 100,000 that do that. But you can't predict whether it will be incident #1 or #100,000 that does it - just a little experiment in social Russian Roulette, eh?

Yet we don't mind asking kids to be the test range dummies in this little experiment in horror. It's a nightmare that not even Jerry Farber would have imagined.

That said, you are correct. nearly overwhelmingly there won't be a problem from dropping. Statistically the most likely possibility is that kids or other teachers will be shot by a teacher who draws their weapon and fires, for whatever reason.

I'm a big believer in hanging on to guns, not against the government, but against far more local threats, but I'm not stupid nor willing to throw out reason to support dumbassery.

It's an extraordinarily stupid idea to arm teachers.